Infuriating moment anti-masker Sydney woman smugly waves her 'exemption' in a bottle shop cashier's face and abuses staff when they refuse to serve her
- CCTV footage shows a bottle shop worker being abused by a maskless woman
- The video shows the store manager asking her why she is not wearing a mask
- The woman pulls out an 'exemption' note and waves it in front of the man's face
- Unconvinced, he refuses to serve her - but she belligerently argues with him
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A bottle shop worker has been abused by a maskless woman in Sydney after rejecting what she claimed was an exemption note.
CCTV shows a woman strolling up to a counter in a Cellarbrations store to buy five bottles of wine to drown her lockdown sorrows in the city's north-west.
After the store manager asks why she is not wearing a mask, the woman aggressively takes a piece of paper from her bag and holds it up in front of his face.
CCTV footage has captured a bottle shop manager being abused by a maskless woman after refusing to serve her
Unconvinced, the cashier grabs examines the document, which she claims proves she has a medical exemption from wearing a mask.
The man appears to tell her her does not accept the exemption and refuses to serve her, taking the five bottles of wine off the counter and carrying them back to the shelves.
The woman storms towards the door before doubling back to confront the man, yelling in his face and shaking the note.
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When she refuses to leave, the man pulls out his phone and appears to threaten to call the police.
The woman continues to argue that her exemption is valid, eventually marching out of the store when the worker refuses to budge.
Whether the woman's claimed exemption note is legitimate and satisfying NSW Health requirements is not clear, but it was not accepted by store staff.
Radio host Ray Hadley said the shocking CCTV showed the abuse retail workers are copping as they enforce Covid restrictions across locked-down NSW.
The woman initially refused to leave, with the manager appearing to threaten to call the police
Face masks are mandatory in all public indoor settings across the state, including shops, offices, and common areas of apartment buildings.
Those in Sydney's 12 local councils and 12 suburbs of Penrith council under ultra-hard lockdown are also required to wear masks in outdoors.
These are include Bayside, Blacktown, Burwood, Campbelltown, Canterbury-Bankstown, Cumberland, Fairfield, Georges River, Liverpool, Parramatta, and Strathfield.
The same rules apply to residents in the Penrith suburbs of Caddens, Claremont Meadows, Colyton, Erskine Park, Kemps Creek, Kingswood, Mount Vernon, North St Marys, Orchard Hills, Oxley Park, St Clair and St Marys.
Anyone with an exemption must either carry a medical certificate issued by a doctor or a statutory declaration.
Earlier this month, NSW Police issued a warning that creating a fake exemption is an indictable offence which carries a five-year jail term.
The five-year prison sentence falls under The Oaths Act of 1900 and is the maximum penalty for making a false declaration.
